# @sjsu on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw3qSrcuw-A
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/12133564-sjsu-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-09-07T00:00:12.000+00:00

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“My junior year of high school, I took a beginning dance class, and it was around the same time that I understood that I was undocumented,” says choreographer Gabriel Mata, ’15 BFA Dance. “I also was understanding that I was gay and growing up Catholic; that created an interesting trifecta. Dance was a way of removing myself from my environment and getting lost in the internal sense, getting lost in movement.”

Read more about Mata’s approach to dance in digital edition of #SJSUWSQ at the link in bio. #spartanlife

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